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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
CARLA FILIPA SIMÕES HENRIQUES

Citation names

  • Simões-Henriques, Carla

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
001D-1005-4FE6
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1030-6065

Websites

Education
Degree Classification
2019/09 - 2027
Ongoing
Medicine (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2018/03/01 - 2023
Ongoing
Integrative Biology and Biomedicine (Doutoramento)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2019/07/01 - 2019/07/05
Concluded
Introduction to the Statistical Analysis of Genome-wide Association Studies - short course. (Outros)
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
2019/02 - 2019/02
Concluded
The Gulbenkian Training Programme in Bioinformatics (GTPB) - Entry Level Bioinformatics (Outros)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2018/10/01 - 2018/10/04
Concluded
IGC's Practical Course on Laboratory Animal Science in Mouse and Zebrafish. (Following EU recommendations for Functions A + D in Laboratory Animal Science). (Outros)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2018/09 - 2018/09
Concluded
SPCAL 20h Theoretical Course on Laboratory Animal Sciences - ONLINE (Following FELASA recommendations for Category B) (Outros)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2015/09 - 2017/09
Concluded
Biomedical Research (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
"Gender dimorphism of microglia morphology: adenosine and testosterone as putative modulators in transgender microglia experiments" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
18/20
2011/09 - 2015/09
Concluded
Biochemistry (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
13/20
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/05 - 2022/07 The social fly: genetic architecture for social learning neural circuits in Drosophila melanogaster A mosca social: arquitectura genética dos circuitos neurais associados à aprendizagem social em Drosophila melanogaster
Provided by PTCRIS: COVID/BD/152638/2022
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/03 - 2022/04 The social fly: genetic architecture for social learning neural circuits in Drosophila melanogaster A mosca social: arquitectura genética dos circuitos neurais associados à aprendizagem social em Drosophila melanogaster
Provided by PTCRIS: PD/BD/138178/2018
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2016/06 - 2017/07
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007440
CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000008: BrainHealth 2020
Master Student
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Carla Filipa Simões-Henriques; A. Catarina Rodrigues-Neves; Fábio J. Sousa; Rita Gaspar; Inês Almeida; Filipa I. Baptista; António F. Ambrósio; Catarina A. Gomes. "Neonatal testosterone voids sexually differentiated microglia morphology and behavior". Frontiers in Endocrinology 14 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2023.1102068.
    10.3389/fendo.2023.1102068
  2. Carla Simões-Henriques; Miguel Mateus-Pinheiro; Rita Gaspar; Helena Pinheiro; Joana Mendes Duarte; Filipa I. Baptista; Paula M. Canas; et al. "Microglia cytoarchitecture in the brain of adenosine A 2A receptor knockout mice: Brain region and sex specificities". European Journal of Neuroscience (2020): https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.14561.
    10.1111/ejn.14561
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Gender dimorphism of microglia morphology: adenosine and testosterone as putative modulators in transgender microglia experiments". Master, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/81417.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. Simões-Henriques, Carla; Ambrósio, A.F.; Gomes, Catarina. MicroScience Photo Gallery - "The Beauty in our Cells" in the context of the Brain Awareness Week 2018. 2018.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/07 A specialized genetic architecture for social learning in Drosophila melanogaster. International Society for Behavioral Ecology Congress 2022
International Society for Behavioral Ecology (Stockholm, Sweden)
2022/07 A specialized genetic architecture for social learning in Drosophila melanogaster European Conference on Behavioural Biology: ECBB 22 – ALL OF LIFE IS SOCIAL
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (Groningen, Netherlands)
2022/04 A specialized genetic architecture for social learning in Drosophila melanogaster 12th ITQB Nova PhD Students' Meeting
Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (Oeiras, Portugal)
2021/12 Functional specialization of social and asocial learnings in Drosophila melanogaster XVII Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Evolutionary Biology
Associação Portuguesa de Biologia Evolutiva (Online)
2021/10 Functional specialization of social learning in Drosophila melanogaster XVIII Conference of the Portuguese Society of Ethology- SPE 2021
Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia (Online)
2020/12 The genetic architecture of social and asocial learning in Drosophila melanogaster XVI Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva
Associação Portuguesa de Biologia Evolutiva (Online)
2019/05 Genetic architecture for social learning in Drosophila melanogaster XVI Meeting of Portuguese Society for Neuroscience
Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/02 Gender-specific organizational and activational effects of adenosine A2A receptor in microglia morphology in the prefrontal cortex IV Biochemists National Meeting
Associação Nacional de Bioquímicos (ANBIOQ) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/02 Organizational effect of testosterone: masculinizing anxious-like behaviour and microglia morphology in the prefrontal cortex III Scientific meeting of the Chemistry Student's Nucleus of the Coimbra Academic Association
Chemistry Student's Nucleus of the Coimbra Academic Association (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/02 In vitro effects of dexamethasone and betamethasone on microglia: structure-activity correlation study III Scientific meeting of the Chemistry Student's Nucleus of the Coimbra Academic Association
Chemistry Student's Nucleus of the Coimbra Academic Association (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/02 Masculinizing female anxious-like behaviour: organizational instructions in transgender experiments XLVIII Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Pharmacology
Portuguese Society for Pharmacology (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/02 Effects of Dexamethasone and Betamethasone on brain microglia: structure-activity correlation study XLVIII Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Pharmacology
Portuguese Society for Pharmacology (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/05 Chronic blockade of adenosine A2A receptors: gender-specific reprogramming of microglia morphology in the PFC XV Portuguese Society for Neuroscience meeting
Portuguese Society for Neuroscience (Braga, Portugal)
2017/02 Gender determination of microglia morphology in the prefrontal cortex: born similar, age differently XLVII Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Pharmacology
Portuguese Society for Pharmacology (Coimbra, Portugal)

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2017/10/09 - 2017/10/09 Assistance in a theoretical lecture of the discipline Biology and Physiology of Aging, at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Coimbra. (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2019/02 - 2019/06 Tuition of the student Sara Santos from the BSc in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology, in the context of a laboratorial rotation for the the curricular unit Oriented Study. Sara Santos
2019/02 - 2019/06 Tuition of the student Gonçalo Silva from the BSc in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology, in the context of a laboratorial rotation for the the curricular unit Oriented Study. Gonçalo Silva
2018/02 - 2018/02 Tuition of students in a Laboratorial Rotation related to the Master in Biomedical Research, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra. Group of students
2017/09 - 2017/10 Tuition of students in the curricular unit Cell Regulation from the Master in Biomedical Research, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra. Group of students
2016/06 - 2017/07 Tuition of the student Francisco Ferrer in the context of the curricular unit Applied Research IV, from the 3rd year of the Integrated Master in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra. Francisco Ferrer
Distinctions

Award

2021 Prize Vitor Almada: best oral communication at XVIII Conference of the Portuguese Society of Ethology- SPE 2021.
Portuguese Society of Ethology, Portugal
2018 Best oral communication at IV Biochemists National Meeting.
Associação Nacional de Bioquímicos (ANBIOQ), Portugal
2008 Best student prize of the 2nd and 3rd cycles' school of Avelar in the 9th grade. Avelar, Leiria, Portugal.
Municipality of Ansião, Portugal
2008 Best student prize of the 2nd and 3rd cycles' schools of the municipality of Ansião in the 9th grade. Ansião, Leiria, Portugal.
Rotary Club de Ansião, Portugal